Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 8th Feb 2007 22:03 UTC
With the Sonnet library for KDE 4, developer Jacob Rideout hopes to reinvigorate the field of desktop linguistics by adding automatic language detection and other innovative features. Sonnet is to be for KDE 4 what KSpell 2 is for the current version of the K Desktop Environment, providing spell-checking facilities to applications as diverse as the Konqueror Web browser, Kopete instant messenger, and KWord office software. Unlike KSpell, however, it will also provide grammar checking, multilingual tools, and perhaps even translation, dictionary, and thesaurus functionality across all of KDE.
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2005-07-06
> That low-level of abstraction is the kind of thing
> the Portland project is working on
indeed. and now that the first phase of capabilities provided by scripts primarily for non-runtime needs is drawing to a close and the second phase of an API to a dbus driven set of services is being developed, this is getting closer to a reality each day.
in another year or so firefox on linux could quite easily just call the print system via the portland api and have the correct (for the given user) dialog appear and communicate with firefox.
this seems to be a much saner way of dealing with the integration issues than patching each app for each permutation, ala openoffice.
exciting times =)